Booby Trapped by bmac62
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This posting goes with my previous upload: U-505 in Chicago
Top frame is a mural illustrating the capture and boarding of the German WWII submarine, U-505 after hedge-hogs and depth charges were used to force it to the surface off the coast of West Africa on June 4, 1944.
U-Boat Captain Lange, after surfacing, fired one torpedo at the surrounding US Navy ships commanded by Captain Daniel Gallery (from Chicago). Several ships of the US Navy fired 20mm and 50 caliber rounds back at the submarine. Captain Lange thought his boat was in immediate danger of sinking and ordered his crew to abandon the boat (yes, a submarine is called a boat). The U-Boat crew was amazed to see a specially trained team of sailors board the sinking submarine to defuse the 14 booby traps and shut off the open sea cocks. They succeeded!!! Training once again overcame fear...each man knew his exact job to save the sub from sinking.
**** The prizes sought in this daring, carefully planned operation was the Top Secret Enigma code machines and the Top Secret code books carried by each U-Boat on patrol.
The bottom frame shows a dozen or more holes in the U-505 conning tower from the fire brought to bear...not to sink the boat...but to cause the U-Boat Captain to surrender without loss of life.
Please ZOOM. I have left the file quite large.
Thanks for stopping by and all your wonderful support for my recent uploads.
Bill:)
Location and date: Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois. Photos taken using available light on June 5th, 2009. 65 years, 1 day after the capture.
Comments (33)
Great shots and interesting story Bill!
fine capture of museum walls, paintings and that very large artifact (the sub), with the strange but beautiful lighting of a museum, and the enclosed feeling it gives. You really get the sweep of the place. And your info is superb. I know something of the UBoats and their immense importance to the German forces then, and their genuine thinness and what the sailors went through in those cloistered quarters. Though I didn't know this particular story. There's something about seeing the mural in a museum setting that makes us feel like we're actually inside of something in the water; because the light & shade mix to produce a feeling of water reflections. And even if it doesn't feel that close in person, seeing the mural in your capture creates closeness. I realize it's not easy to shoot in these spaces, and getting all of these beasts in one shot can be very difficult. More fine museum work from you, Bill. This is a definite 'sub-category' for you. You handle museums extremely well.
Bill, super shots. I zoomed, it was definitely worth it.